Wembley The National Disgrace

[ShedDweller]

The farce of the Pink car park is being discussed elsewhere so I will concentrate on the disgusting national stadium itself.
Where we entered the only way up was stairs. Approximately half way up an elderly lady was really struggling, so much so me and my mate stopped. There was no emergency exits that we saw, no stewards, nothing. If she wanted to go down she had to pass hundreds of Blues going the other way which wasnt an option. Fortunately she was ok after a good rest. The point being if she had a heart attack there was no one anywhere to help. If there were lifts for the less able, we didn't see them.
The beer was in cans. 10 guys on minimum wage opening and pouring and 3 more serving it. £8 a can I think. Bearing in mind I pay £5 for 4 at my off licence, what an obscene amount of profit.
Oh and I think because we won, we got a cup. I say I think because I couldn't see the presentation I had to watch it on a 12" TV screen high in another stand.
When they rebuilt the shithole they conned and cheated football fans. I hate the place and I'm not sure I'll go back.

100% right.

It was a disgrace that they were allowed to destroy so much of the iconography of the old stadium. They could easily have rebuilt the twin towers as the centrepiece of the new statium. But no... the cunts knew better and we ended up with a generic stadium that could be any modern stadium anywhere in the world... but more expensive and more shit.

The middle 'club wembley' layer thats always fucking empty for 15 minutes either side of HT is a personal hate of mine.

Another thing that really annoys me is this (and yes it is petty)... by why the fuck are the seats red? Why not white or light grey so that club colours don't get watered down by the seat colours (or enhanced if you play in red).

The views are shite, the ridiculous trip to the royal box instead of the simple stairs.

And don't get me started on the playing of semi finals there.

Wembley Way used to be amazing, wide open spaces... now its a funnel through a generic business/retail corridor.

As usual we got conned and ripped off. The FA and thier cronies are total cunts. Its a machine to generate revenue from fans, pure and simple.

 

[give it to gordon]

Been once to the new Wembley the villa final.
Fucking hated it dark badly lit concourse, grey concrete everywhere. Cold and windy concourse. And the seats are fucking red

 

[brazilians hurt]

A shit hole of a stadium badly conceived by a committee of “ blazers”who could not comprehend the meaning of “authentic fan experience”
To top that it was massively overpriced & almost bankrupted the FA

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

It's an overpriced shitehole but I guess we knew that anyway. Thousands of stewards, the poor sods probably on minimum wage and all of them pretty useless. There was a rag celebrating their penalty in the block next to ours. Loads of Blues complaining about him and the stewards saying they didn't have the authority to do anything about him. Also that second tier, why is it mixed? After both our goals we were pelted with drink, bottles and whatever else the rag bastards could get their hands on. Absolutely ridiculous letting them in there right above our support.

Pregame we had those in club wembley walking the pitch, one gimp in particular was doing the wanker gesture to blues, and the worker for wembley did fuck all about it until people were reacting badly to it.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

I love Blur but I’m not paying £90 to see them in that shithole. I hope they do a proper tour.

Also, the train strikes make getting there even more of a potential headache - did those of you who went get buses/coaches?

dont hold your hopes for a blur tour

Im the same as you

 

[Grassland Blue]

In Birmingham. Its a disgrace that the national stadium is at one end of the country rather than roughly in the middle.

So Lands End is nearer to Birmingham than Wembley...?

 

[iwasthere1968]

Simple solution boycott the dump

 

[mexico1970]

Pregame we had those in club wembley walking the pitch, one gimp in particular was doing the wanker gesture to blues, and the worker for wembley did fuck all about it until people were reacting badly to it.

What my missus pointed out was that the winners podium and ceremony was aimed at the great and the good and NOT at the city fans, that's a shithouse trick by any metric.

Fans come last again ehh?

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Absolutely lifeless stadium, it does nothing well.

 

[paulchapo]

Pregame we had those in club wembley walking the pitch, one gimp in particular was doing the wanker gesture to blues, and the worker for wembley did fuck all about it until people were reacting badly to it.

I knew somebody who did stewarding there on occasion and basically they are all recruited en mass each event. Some on their retained list will have experience but the vast majority won't.